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You can, all on your ownio, even without the help of a Chloë or a Zoë, come to dislike your own mind.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

I owe what I know about these women to Manny Washinsky, though not the photograph of Irma Grese which I happened upon, all on my ownio, a little later.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

But the memorandum I made to myself on a small folded-down corner of that 315 honeymoon, to look into Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS when I had a spare and more seemly hour on my ownio, turned out to be unnecessary.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

On his ownio, without the word of God at his shoulder, Manny himself liked my cartoons.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

On my ownio, and as a caricaturist of derangement, I thought I should find a spare hour to look into it.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

_ -- As bad as old Antonio, For he left me on my ownio.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

Though I knew nothing like as much as Manny knew about these flowers of German womanhood, I had garnered odd items of information about them on my ownio, from war comics which other kids brought to school, from odd articles in Jewish newspapers which Tsedraiter Ike passed on to me when no one was looking—for in our house the Jewish Chronicle was underground literature—and of course from Errol Tobias, though he was inclined rather to harp on the one string.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

“Crack you a bottle of something, or will I be having fun on my ownio?” was how Chloë’s mother greeted me, notwithstanding her daughter’s pantomime objurgations.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

As in, “Well, there, I have to say, you’re on your ownio, Sonny Jim,” whenever she disagreed with something someone said to her.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

You can wish away being Jewish, looking Jewish, thinking Jewish, talking Jewish, all on your ownio, to borrow one of Zoë’s mother’s, no, Chloë’s mother’s, cute locutions.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006